Against Quote by Phil Anselmo

When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.

— Salman Rushdie

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

— Carrie Brownstein

Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.

— Vu Tran

Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.

— Colum McCann

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to…

— David McCullough

I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't…

— Andrew Motion

It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now…

— Sarah Kay

'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.

— Brian Koppelman

I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.

— Donald Windham

My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply putting down…

— Alan Lightman

The kind of writing that matters most to me is something you don't learn about. It's constantly coming out of what I don't know…

— W. S. Merwin

“Stop writing what you know and start writing what you want to know.”

— Tiffany Reisz